5 stories that day · 2 models · 1 open source · 2 trending
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OpenAI says it uses the same weights as GPT-6 Astra but refuses fewer risky-yet-useful biology questions, so only scientists and groups OpenAI has vetted can use it.
OpenAI · Original source (opens in a new tab)
Model
Google says Carbon ranks first on the new Artificial Analysis index and leads tests for finding and fixing security flaws. Only some cyber defenders get it this week; wider access comes later.
Google DeepMind · Original source (opens in a new tab)
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Mistral says the model, nicknamed Le Chonk and previewed earlier this month, is now the best open-weight model for coding and handles defensive security work without needless refusals.
Mistral AI · Original source (opens in a new tab)
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MIT researchers find GPT-6 Astra can read and rewrite a neural network's raw weights (opens the original source in a new tab)Weights are the numbers a model learns. The authors say Astra could tell what a network was trained to do from its weights alone, and fixed reasoning loops in Qwen3.5-0.8B by editing 0.016% of them.
Rikiya Takehi · Original source (opens in a new tab)
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Phorion finds a backdoor in the Claude Code for VS Code extension on Cursor's marketplace (opens the original source in a new tab)Phorion says version 2.1.313 plants an attacker's key so they can log in to the computer over SSH, a remote-access tool. That version was pulled from Cursor's marketplace, npm and the VS Code registry.
990 points on Hacker News
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